Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary

07.21.2004

The passing news

DARING ROBBERY. -- The old gentleman who has long supplied the Court and General Assembly with candy and notions, had left his stock in trade in the entry a few days since and retired to the Court room to discuss his dinner, when some miscreant carried off the entire stock of candy, consisting of eight sticks. The perpetrator of this daring robbery remained undetected at the latest advices.

Feb. 2, 1839

SPANISH LEECHES, in a fine healthy condition, just received, may be had at reduced prices, at the sign of the Great Mortar, Cheapside, of Doct. J.A. WADSWORTH, Chemist and Apothecary.

Advertisement, Aug. 12, 1836 ("Cheapside," the main business district in 19th-century Providence, is the area where, in 2004, North Main and South Main streets meet).

SINGULAR MARRIAGE. The New York papers give an account of the arrest of a woman, in male attire, who it was afterwards discovered was regularly married to another woman in Liverpool (Eng.) fifteen years ago, and has lived with her, passing for husband, ever since.

Aug. 18, 1836

EPHRAIM K. AVERY at the Springfield Methodist Conference last week, requested to be re-established as a preacher, which request the conference very properly refused.

Aug. 13, 1836

A YOUNG LADY was lately told by one that was married that she had better precipitate herself off the Passaic Falls into the basin beneath, than to marry. The young lady replied, "I would if I thought that I could find a husband at the bottom."

Sept. 2, 1834

THE WEATHER. -- The cold weather of the middle of last week closed our harbor, but the wind and rain of Saturday have reopened it. . . . The wind was very severe here, on Saturday evening, and we fear has done some damage to vessels on the coast. Two barns were blown over, on Fox Point, and several chimneys were thrown down; four or five hundred panes of glass were broken in the roof of the Arcade. We have not heard of any other damage in this vicinity.

Jan. 28, 1839

"MEASURES NOT MEN." -- Married, at Washington, on the 17th August, Mr. Josiah Peck, to Miss Aurelia Bushel.

[The next generation we suppose will be half Pecks and half Bushels. -- Prov. Journal.]

Sept. 3, 1834

RIOT. -- An attempt was made recently by Mr. Storrs, to deliver an abolition Lecture in the Methodist Chapel, at Exeter, N.H. He was prevented by the assemblage of a mob, who broke the windows, and discharged a shower of water, from an engine, upon the congregation.

Aug. 13, 1836

ANTI-SLAVERY. -- It is said that upwards of eleven hundred dollars have been collected in Fall River and Fairhaven, for the Anti Slavery Society in New Bedford.

Aug. 15, 1836

ORANGES -- 75 boxes sweet Fayal Oranges, in fine order, just received and for sale by STEPHEN PHILLIPS & CO.

Advertisement, Jan. 22, 1839